California workplace rules: Masks required, unless everyone is vaccinated
By Don Thompson
Workplace rules: Masks required, unless everyone is vaccinated
California employees will soon be able to skip masks in the workplace, but only if every employee in the room is fully vaccinated against the coronavirus.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California employees will soon be able to skip masks in the workplace, but only if every employee in the room is fully vaccinated against the coronavirus.
The revised rules adopted Thursday night by a sharply divided California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board are expected to kick in June 15, the same day the state more broadly loosens masking and other requirements in social settings in keeping with recent federal recommendations.
California Aiming to Ease Virus Rules for Workers in Mid-June
California workforce regulators will aim for a mid-June easing of workplace mask and social distancing requirements to conform with a broader state order, postponing a vote on whether to revise coronavirus safety rules for employees.
Cal/OSHA’s staff said it would aim “to make possible a targeted effective date of June 15, 2021,” instead of proceeding with a proposal that would have made businesses wait until July 31 to ease some pandemic restrictions.
The same regulations also would impose new requirements that dozens of business groups called too onerous during a hearing Thursday by the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board.
By DON THOMPSON
Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) â California workforce regulators will aim for a mid-June easing of workplace mask and social distancing requirements to conform with a broader state order, postponing a vote on whether to revise coronavirus safety rules for employees.
Cal/OSHA s staff said it would aim âto make possible a targeted effective date of June 15, 2021,â instead of proceeding with a proposal that would have made businesses wait until July 31 to ease some pandemic restrictions.
The same regulations also would impose new requirements that dozens of business groups called too onerous during a hearing Thursday by the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board.
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